Temporary construction mold



B HAR|G 1,942,098

-Filed April 1e, 1927 3 sheets-sheet 1 Jan. 2, 1934.

TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION MOLD Jan. 2, 1934. B. HARIG 1,942,098

TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION MOLD l Filed April 16, 1927 3 Shee .s-Shee\`l 2 Jan. 2, 1934. B. HARIG TEMPORARYv CONSTRUCTION MOLD Filed April' 16,

3 Sheets-Sheet 3 lllllll IL Patented Jan. 2, 1934 unirse STATES eers TENIPORARY CONSTRUCTION MOLD Benjamin Harig, Cincinnati, Ohio, assigner, by mesne assignments, to William M. Goldsmith, Cincinnati, Ohio Application April 16, 1927. Serial No. 184,390

26 Claims. (Cl. ,2S-131.5)

nestled@ This invention relates to temporary forms used is customary to provide an I beam 16 or other in plastic construction, particularly reinforced suitable reinforcement for the concrete and such concrete building slabs. reinforcement projects into the mold. It is nec- An object of this invention is to provide simple essary that the mold 10 be accurately placed in and inexpensive means that may be readily erectrelation to the various proposed walls, columns @c ed and wrecked as well as repeatedly used for 17, and proposed other beams or girders of a eecting uniform distances between concrete building undergoing erection. Accordingly, the joists and the door next below. mechanics build up the mold l0 with great care One of the diiculties in attaining the foreand accuracy. In a building of the character going object has been occasioned by the fact that under Consideail, a Dlllldly 0f beams 0I e5 various of the devices necessary for supporting girders are poured in molds such as 10. These and sustaining the weight of the plastic mass beams or girders are spaced and generally extend during the petrication thereof, had to be adin parallelism. Between the girders or beams justed and measured with much care and accuthere are provided a plurality of parallel conracy. This necessitated considerable time and crete ioists. These concrete joists Connect the v@ required fairly skilled mechanics. It also created beams and glels deVSlOlOS-Bd al? OPDOS@ ends 0f lumber wastage. such joists and are integral with 0r supported by An object of this invention is to provide the such beams. Heretoiore, because of the employmechanical elements employed in erecting ternment of the present known means or forms for porary forms for concrete construction that will DIOVdrlg .l'OStS fOl the 10U-H3088 ldaed, it has 35 substantially reduce the element of time and the been necessary to build up the forms or molds amount of exacting work of highly skilled me.. for the joists with the same degree of care and enemies for attaining the same results, and wnereaccuracy as was necessary to build up the molds by the lumber wastage is practically eliminated. SllCh aS 10 fOr the beams 0l gTdGTS, The inven- These Vand other objects are attained by the tion disclosed herein is intended to eect the s@ means described herein and disclosed in the ac- Same ELCCHMB building 11D Of the YlOldS 01 Supcompanying drawings, in which: ports for the joists as was formerly effected,

Fig. i .is a ragmental perspective View of a however, making it possible to attain that result mold within which a concrete beam or girder is bv mechanical means that may be assembled and t@ be formed and te which mold are attached deerected by practically unskilled workmen as com @c vices embodying the invention disclosed herein pared with the character of individuals that hereand utilized for forming the joists that connect GOOIG Were necessary Ol" doing 15h18 type and beams or girders. kind of work.

Fig. 2 is a fragmental side elevation, parts A1011g the bOaldS 01 battens Such as 11 and shown in section, of a mold formed by using del5 0f the mOd 107 there 2LT@ applied Suitable SU-P- 9@ vices embodying the herein disclosed invention. DOItS 18 that may be wooden 2X4s or like mem- This view is taken on line 2/2 of Fig. l. bers. The distance at which the upper face 19 Fig. 3 is afmgmental View on line 3/3 ofFig.1, of the support 18 is disposed below the upper and showing portions of the structure shown in edges 20 0f the bOLTdS 11 and l5 may be Substan- Fig. 2, but at right angles thereto. tially uniform. An edging strip 21 may be se- 95 Fig. e is a detailed View of a plate, forming a cured to the upper edges of adjacent boards such detail of the invention. as 14 and 15 for attaining the exact distance at Fig. 5 is a iragmental detailed View. which the face 19 oi the member or ribbon board Fig. 6 is a perspective view showing the saints 18 should be disposed below the upper face 22 of and illler strips forming part of this invention. the edging 2l. The edging strips 2l close the 100 Fig. 7 is a view showing substantially the manupper ends Of the Spaces between the battens. ner of supporting the soits from a blank wall. At intervals along the support 18 there are Fig. 8 is a perspective view of a collar member mounted softs 23, that form the bottom surface shown in Fig. 5. f of the concrete joist to be formed. Y It is to be The mold 10 developed by use of the various expected that there will be some variation in 105 boards 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15, is built up in any different buildings in the distances at which the of the manners or methods common in this art. beams are disposed, wherefore the soii'its 23 and The boards 11 and 15 are generally called battens the means associated therewith are adapted to and extend transversely of mold boards 12 and be adjusted to the indicated variations. For 14, at intervals along said boards 12 and 14. It accomplishing this purpose the soits comprise 11u soits.

a table member 230 carrying a depending vertical brace 24 that may be secured to the sofiit by suitable nails or bolts. Brackets 25 may be used to support the table 230 on the brace 24. At the ends of a soiiit table and a brace it is desirable to provide a slot or recess indicated at 26 in Fig. 3. This slot or recess may be effected in any suitable manner, for example, as shown herein by spacing the table member from the upper edge of the brace 24 by inserting suitable shims 231 between the table 230 and leg or brace 24. An inverted U-shaped sheet metal extension 27 is adapted to have the base 28 thereof projected into the recess 26. The extension may be provided with elongated slots 29 in the depending legs 30 thereof, said slots adapted to vreceive a bolt and wing nut structure 31 carried by the brace 24 for clamping the extension at Various degrees of projection in or out of the recess 26. A pin 131 may be carried by the brace 24 and serves to preclude sagging of the extension and soiiit. The outer end of the extension, or in other words that portion of the extension projecting from and beyond the recess 26 is provided with a pair of lateral flanges 32 and 33 that are formed by bending the legs ,30 at approximately right angles. The base portion of the extension comprises a lap, finger or arm 34 having its lateral edges 35 severed from connection with the iianges 32 and 33. An angle plate 36 that may be of sheet metal, has its longer leg 37 in abutment upon the flanges 32 and 33. The shorter arm 38 of the angle plate 36 lies below and in abutment upon the arm 34 formed upon the base 28 of the extension. The angle plate may be permanently attached to the extension by means of rivets or other suitable means. The shorter arm or leg 38 of the angle plate rests upon a support or ribbon board 18. If desired the L-shaped plate 35 may be dispensed with. A like extension structure may be provided at the other end of the soit. The thickness of the various members used for mounting the soft upon the support or ribbon board 13 is such that the soft when mounted has its upper face flush or in substantially the same plane with the face 22 of the edging strip 21. In order to close the space between the end of the soiiit and the mold 1G, see Fig. 1, there are provided angle brackets 39 comprising a pair of parallel plate like members 40 and 41 integral with and connected by an in termediate webbing or plate like member 42 extending substantially perpendicular between said members 40 and 41. The members may be provided with suitable apertures 43 through which Y fastening means such as nails may be driven for securing the angle plates upon the soits at the ends thereof for bridging the space between the soffits and the mold l0. Between the angle brackets 39 supported on adjacent somts, see Fig. 2, there are inserted filler strips 44 of a thickness substantially identical with the thickness of the table portion 230 whereby a framework results to preclude the escape of wet or mush concrete adjacent the mold 10 and between adjacent The soiiits are adapted to receive suitable metal tiles, forms or members indicated in dotted lines at 45 in Fig. 2. The use of metal tiles in this type of construction is well known and is ancillary to the invention disclosed herein. From the foregoing it should be evident that the softs may all be mounted in position without the provision of any supporting structure in the nature of shores. In other words the soits are all supported from the mold 10. Thereafter suitable cross braces 46 may be attached to the brace 24 and suitable snoring 47 may be positioned beneath the cross braces 46 for taking up the weight and load of the concrete when poured over and upon the sonits. When using the temporary structure disclosed herein the shoring 47 supports practically no weight or load until the concrete is poured into the mold or form, wherefore it follows that the shoring may be expeditiously mounted beneath the softs. By reference to Fig. 5 it is evident that the cross braces or stringere 46 may be held in position below the brace 24 by means of collar 48 comprising angle irons 430 and 481 receiving the brace or Stringer 24 between the vertical arms 49 and 490 thereof and to the base of which are attached suitable angle irons 50 and 501 for providing between them a way into which the brace member or Stringer 46 may be received. A perspective view of this structure is shown in Fig. 8. Suitable fastening means such as nails may be used to attach the members43, 24, and 46, to one another. If desired a vsuitable block 51 may be nailed upon the shoring 47 and the cross support 46, although in practice it has been found unnecessary to provide a block 51. In building up the joist molds, the collar members 43 may be fastened to the brace 24 of the soiiit. Thereupon the stringers may be attached to the collar members, and then the snoring may be placed below and in conact with the stringers. of construction and assembly effects rapid construction of the joist mold.

On some occasions it may be desired to provide cross bridging intermediate the soffits as shown in Fig. 6. At such places, a filler strip such as 44, carrying angle brackets at its end would be inserted between and supported from adjacent somts, the tiles or pans being capped at such places, wherefore a cross joist of concrete would be molded at such place.

In some installations, the soits may be supported at an end by means other than a beam mold such as 10. For example, the concrete joists may terminate at one end upon a brick wall as disclosed in Fig. 7. Under such circumstances the ends of the soflits would be supported in substantially the manner shown herein, however, the ribbon board 18 would be supported by a structure other than a beam mold, for example shoring and stringere that would be built up along a wall at which the joists would terminate. In View of the disclosures herein, the suggested structure becomes readily obvious to those skilled in the art. In some instances the sharing or support means other than a beam mold, brick wall, or ribbon board may be provided for establishing the means upon which the extensible ends of the sofits may rest.

Although the soits shown herein comprise a table 230 and brace 24, it is readily evident that the table portion of the somt may be dispensed with, and that the body or brace portion may constitute the soilit proper and may carry suitable eXtensible means or parts that function as do the extensions 27. Accordingly the sortit member that may be employed may be properly soffits and contacting the supports at opposite' ends of said soints for aligning the upper faces ofthe soiits with the upper edges of the molds,

This method TTU means extending betweenthe soflits andthe molds for extending a continuous surface between the ends of the sonits and the mold and in substantial alignment with said upper surfaces of the somts and mold, and members extending between adjacent soflits and closing the spaces between such solts.

2. The combination with a pair of spaced girder molds, supports mounted along the sides of the-molds, spaced soffits comprising a depending brace and extension members at the ends of the soits and contacting the supports at opposite ends of said soits for aligning the upper faces of the softs with the upper edges of the molds, means extending between the sofrits and the molds for extending a continuous surface between the ends of the somts and the moldl and in substantial alignment with said upper surfaces of the softs and mold, framing members supported by said last mentioned means on adjacent softs and contacting the molds, said framing members having their upper faces aligned with the upper faces of the soflits and with the upper edges of the molds, and members extending between adjacent soitlts and closing the spaces between such sofits.

3. An extensible sofiit comprising a table member and a depending leg member, together having a T-shaped cross section, the soit having a recess at its end and between the table and leg members, an inverted U-shaped extension having its base received in said recess for adjustment longitudinally of the soit, the legs of the extension depending and lying along the leg member, means for clamping the extension on the soft, the extension legs comprising outwardly projecting flanges extending in substantial parallelism from opposite sides of the extension, the extension base comprising a finger extending in alignment with the base, and an L.- shaped plate having its one leg in abutment on .the ringer on the base having its other leg in abutment on the flanges on the legs of the extension, the L-shaped plate adapted to serve as a support for upholding the end or" the soiiit when disposed upon a suitable support ledge.

4. The combination with spaced temporary beam molds, of lengthwise adjustable parallel spaced soiiits supported at their ends between said molds, framing between the ends of adjacent soiiits, and means for closing the spaces between the soiiits and framings, said last mentioned means, soffits and framings providing extended joist molds over said soits, merging with the beam molds for providing monolithic concrete beams and joists.

5. The combination of mounted, spaced support members, of lengthwise adjustable parallel spaced softs supported at their ends between said support members, and means supported by said saints and closing the spaces between said softs and support members for providing extended joist molds over said soiiits for forming monolithic joists and floor slabs.

The combination of mounted, spaced support members, lengthwise adjustable parallel space softs having extensions at their ends for contacting upon the support members for suspending the soits from said support members,

framing between the soflits and supported by and between the soiits, tiles supported by the and forming with said sofiits and framing single mold for a monolithic slab and depending concrete joist structure, said sofrits comprising a table and a depending brace, collar membersv comprising two pairs of angle irons, an arm of each of one pair of angle irons extending in parallelism on opposite sides of the sortit braces, the other arms of said pair of angle irons disposed in the same plane and resting upon an arm of each of the second pair of angle irons, said second pair of angle irons extending at right angles to said first pair oi angle irons and having their respective second arms 'depending in substantial parallelism with one another, whereby a way is provided between them, stringers received and held in said way, and shoring below said stringers for supporting a load the weight of which is directed upon the sofiits and stringers.

7. An extensible soflit comprising a Vbracket and a table member, an inverted U-shape extension having elongated slots in the arms thereof, the bracket received between the arms, and a pair of support means extending through the bracket and into the slots for retaining the bracket and extension in substantial alignment.

8. An extensible somt comprising a main portion, having a top and sides, an extension portion for adjustment along the main portion and com- 10() prising a section disposed adjacent to and in substantial continuity with the top of the main portion, and a side section disposed adjacent one of the sides of the main section, and means for securing the sides of the main portion and ex- 105 tension portions upon one another at various adjusted positions.

9. A mold comprising side members, soflits adjustable longitudinally between said side members, complementary means carried by the side 11g members and soflits for supporting the spirits from said members during the initial erection of said somts, and snoring below the sonits for supporting the weight of plastic deposited on the soflits. 1

10. rihe combination with `spaced temporary beam molds, of lengthwise adjustable parallel spaced sofjts supported at their ends between said molds, and means for closing the spaces between the softs and beam molds, said last mentioned means, and somts providing extended molds merging with the beam molds ior providing monolithic concrete construction.

11. rThe combination of mounted, spaced suppor-t members, soiits supported by the support members and extending transversely therebetween, stringers below the soflits, and means for transversely supporting the stringe-rs from the soflits.

12. In a concrete joist mold the combination of spaced softs, a pair of brackets each comprising parallel oppositely extending platelike members and a connecting member between them, each bracket having one of its upper platelike members disposed upon one of the softs, and a ller strip supported upon the lower platelike members and connecting the softs.

13. In a concrete joist mold thev combination of spaced'softs, a ller strip and mountingr therefor, and comprising a ller strip having substantially parallel opposed faces, and a pair of brackets, a bracket mounted at each end of the filler strip and comprising each a pair of substantially parallel platelike members extending in opposite directions supported by the softs and connected to a central member abutting the end of the filler strip, each bracket having a platelike member extending over a portion of the filler strip, said last mentioned platelike members extending toward one another non a 'common side of the Viiller strip.

14. An extensible somt comprising a body, an inverted U shape extension slidable lengthwise of the somt and at the end thereof, and means for securing the body and extension at various 'positions of adjustment.

15. An extensible soiiit comprising an elongated body, an extension member adjustable longitudinally of the body at an end thereof and comprising a support ledge, and means for securing the body and extension upon one another at selected positions of adjustment.

16. An eXtensible soft comprising a body portion, an inverted U shape extension having elongated slots in the arms thereof, the body portion received between the arms, and a pair of support means extending through the bracket and into the slots for retaining the bracket and extension in substantial alignment.Y

17. The combination of mounted, spaced support members, of lengthwise adjustable parallel spaced soiits supported at 'their ends between said support members, cross bridging between said soffits and means supported by said softs and closing the spaces between said soflits, cross bridging and support members for providing an extended mold over said sofiits and cross bridging for forming monolithic slabs.

18. The combination of spaced support members, lengthwise adjustable parallel somts supported at their ends between said support members, and means supported by the soflits and closing the spaces between the soilits and support members for providing a mold over said sofiits and space closing means for forming a monolithic slab. A K

19, In combination, an elongated construction element of rectangular form in cross-section, a

i support at right angles to said element and spaced a substantial distance from an end thereof, and a hanger embracing said end portion of the element and engaging substantially spaced apart top and bottom portions thereof and projecting longitudinally beyond said element end portion, the longitudinally projecting portion of said hanger resting on said support.

20. In combination, an elongated elevated joist, a fixed support at right angles to said joist i and spaced a substantial distance from one end thereof and having its supporting surface on a level above that of the lower surface of the joist, and a longitudinally adjustable hanger embracing a substantial length of said end portion of said joist and having spaced-apart upper and lower transverse portions engaging respectively spaced upper and lower portions of the'joist, said hanger having a longitudinally projecting outer end portion of less height than said joist and resting on said supporting surface.

21. The combination with spaced parallel girder molds, of a temporary deck for forming concrete ceiling and oor slabs and comprising soifits, each having a table member and a brace member secured thereto at right angles therewith and-extending beyond the ends of the table member, the end of the brace members being Asecured to the girder molds, and means on the brace members for increasing the length thereof,

panel members equal in length to the length ofv or to a unit of the length of the table members and supportable upon the table members and means cooperating with the panel and table members adjacent the girder molds for lling interstices resulting between the molds andthe positioned deck members.

22. A ller strip for use with temporary construction forms and comprising a board and an angle strip positioned along an edge thereof, said angle strip comprising a plate adapted to be secured to a supporting element of a temporary construction, and means integral with the plate and abutting the edge and adjacent surfaces of the board for supporting the board.

23. The combination of spaced girder forms, soilits supported by the girder forms, decking means substantially filling the spaces between the sofiits and girder forms, and filler strips comprising at elements with angle strips thereon, said filler strips being attachable to the soits for filling spaces between the decking means and the girder forms.

24. The combination with spaced girder forms, of a temporary deck comprising spaced soiits having table members with brace members attached thereto and extending beyond the ends of the table members, means at the ends of the brace members for attaching the somts to the girderkforms, rigid panels each disposed upon I the table members of adjacent soiiits and substantially lling the spaces between the solicits, and means for insertion at the ends of the table members and along the panels for lling the spaces resulting adjacent the girder forms and between the girder forms, the table members and the panels adjacent thereto.

25. The combination with spaced supporting members, of paneling sections adapted to be positioned between said members and having angle strips thereon for attaching the paneling to the supporting members, said strips comprising plate portions attachable to the supporting members and lugs -lor holding the paneling, the plate portions being adapted to be superimposed and to have superimposed thereon the similar plate portions of angle strips on adjacently positioned paneling.

26. The combination with spaced supporting members providing limited supporting surfaces, of paneling adapted to be positioned between and supported upon said members, the paneling having angle strips comprising plate portions for attachment to one of said limited supporting surfaces and lugs for attachment to the paneling,

said plate portions being adapted to be superim- 1. 

